Tag: infectious diseases
Overtreatment of malaria in Africa raises concerns
Prescribing malaria medication to patients who don’t need it wastes resources and can lead to drug resistance, say African health officials....
Breath test detects diabetes, cancer and other diseases
Developers of the breath test say there is an 85 percent accuracy in spotting lung cancer using the breathalyzer....
Salmonella outbreak leads to largest meat recall in U.S. history.
Cargill recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey after salmonella outbreak leaves one person dead and at least 76 ill....
AIDS fighting drugs could prevent HIV
New studies show that taking a daily pill designed to fight AIDS can actually prevent an uninfected person from contracting HIV....
Killing a killer disease
William Foege, one of the scientists who led the global campaign that eradicated smallpox, talks about the other six diseases he'd like to kill off....
Turning toilets into profit
Business students are hoping to take advantage of the "sanitation value chain" to turn toilets into money making machines....
E. Coli outbreak in Europe
Europeans are in the grip of E. Coli fear. The bacteria have killed 16 people, all but one in Germany....
A vaccine for malaria? The army wants to know.
The U.S. Army is testing a new vaccine for Malaria. Someone had to be willing to try it....
Soap recycling helps Haiti
With easily preventable illnesses killing thousands of children every day, discarded hotel soaps can make the difference between health and deadly illness. ...
What creates an epidemic?
Public health officials struggle to understand epidemics like the cholera outbreak in Haiti, including the social forces behind them....
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